To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.

For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.

The idea was a splinter in my mind. Always there, always stinging, even when I wasn't conscious of it. Even when I wasn't thinking about it.

I could survive for months, years, on a crush.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.